https://bloustein.rutgers.edu/who-really-owns-the-u-s-housing-market-the-complete-roadmap/
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/new-property-data-tool-reveals-patterns-of-investor-ownership-in-the-twin-cities-area
https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/rise-institutional-investors-us-rental-housing-market
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/understanding-the-rise-of-investor-owned-homes
a lot of banks own a huge portion of the market. Then there are the baby boomers who are living to be over 100 years old and so two generations are waiting for their houses to turn over, kinda like when you go to a restaurant and you’re waiting for a table and the people spend four hours eating. Then, of course, the people that own the homes have unrealistic expectations of how much money they’re going to make. They will have to get desperate until they start letting go. I just saw someone with a portable barbecue. They pushed it in front of their house with a for sale sign and they wanted $2100. I would probably pay less than 100 for it. I see boats and Sea-Doo’s, with horrible price tags and people‘s front yards. And used cars with crazy prices on them. But they’re always still there. No one is buying them so it’s going to be a while, but I think it’ll eventually break.
Tons of moneys been flooding in from communist China. For years. It appears to be 30
Plus percent in some areas. Results in higher housing prices
There's plenty of solid evidence out there. The international banksters in New York are behind it. Blackstone owns billions of dollars worth of residential property. Third largest owner of residential property in the US; they bought (or are buying) a competitor for $3.5 billion. They bought another competitor for $10 billion. Pocket change for them. Here's one story https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/blackstone-is-buying-rental-homes-again-heres-why.html
A report from early last year says that 32 "institutional investors" owned 450,000 single family homes. The number has gone up since then. Pretium owned 97,000 single family homes as of early this year.
RE became overheated post covid as rents and prices skyrocketed. This will revert to mean, banks and investors will bail and the market will correct. If I were a middle aged person with good income, I would be taking stock profits to strike when the market corrects. RE income is a good retirement plan.
Some things to consider:
In the current real estate market, there is slower appreciation compared to past markets. This works against a buy and sell quick profit strategy. In contrast, renting allows investors to benefit from a slow but steady appreciation over time. Mortgage rates are higher than the not too distant past. This is driving people to rent rather than buy. This demand to rent trend help drive investors toward renting property vs buy & sell/flip. Another attraction for those who rent property is that landlords can take advantage of various tax deductions that rental properties afford.
I don’t know, but I do know that the traditional busy spring and summer market did not materialize in the DFW market, where one of my daughters is an agent. I don’t think she’s sold a house since February. Fortunately for her, she sold several houses before that.
Even 25+ years ago, I would advise most friends and peers who were ambivalent about home ownership that it didn’t make sense to own a home unless one or both of the following were applicable: (1) they had children in the public school system, and/or (2) they ran a business out of the home.
There have always been commercial companies buying up property and then renting it out. A way to make a living I suppose. The amount of rental conversions depends on the area. I don’t see it as much in my area.
I see young people buying homes and I also still see homes being bought and sold. Mortgage rates are high but still half of what I faced with my first home.
Notably, data reporting by the St. Louis Fed shows that the money supply in fact rose sharply in 2020, so the first part of the claim is true.
The firm I buy from owns and manages over 5,000 properties in Jacksonville...and they’re just the little guys. According to the Government Accountability Office, by June 2022, institutional investors collectively owned 450,000 single-family rental homes, with the top five investors controlling nearly 300,000 of those.
For all the many times and many years I've read that referenced here and everywhere, I assumed it was an ominous phrase from Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged.
I’m the bad guy. I bought the most expensive house ever sold in this town. 6500 sq ft on 12 acres for $325k. Now everyone thinks they can get $400k for 3200 sq ft reno on a lot. Houses just aren’t moving. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to find a rental with 3 bedrooms for under $1000 but they have an eviction on their record.
it’s been known for a while the big investment companies like black rock have been buying a large portion of the available residential real estate... upwards of 25%
they’re buying those homes with the passive 401k style investments everyone does.
of course, they could invest in America via an S&P index stock... but they’d rather take over the world bit by bit.
my personal solution was to suggest corporations could not own more than 5+ residential homes per 10,000 employees. this wouldn’t stop them from owning hotels but it would stop them from gobbling up private homes.
also, banks, being corporations, would not be able to hold foreclosed properties for longer than 30-60 days. this would stop the trend started in 2008 of foreclosing but not letting the homes hit the markets. the result is to keep the housing prices up as the supply is restricted.
of course, this was received by the 3 or 4 congress-critter offices i call like a fart in church.
Blackrock, Orchid Island, mortgage backed REIT’s. Wanna make money in real estate? Buy FNMA before the IPO.
Where I lived houses sold in less than an hour.
Where my brother lives nearly every house was bought by Airbnb investors.
Owning a home is impossible for most people now. I earn a good wage but there is nothing affordable. Even at mod six figures.
“You’ll own nothing and like it.”
Real estate is for sale and waiting for me to buy it all around me and elsewhere. Plus, you can now invest in shares of a company that owns real estate, so it’s takes very little money to invest in real estate now. I think the minimum is $500, but that’s from memory.
BASED UPON THE HIGH NUMBER OF CALLS I HAVE GOTTEN “TO SELL MY PROPERTY” AND THE MAIL INQUIRIES, YOU ARE RIGHT.
INVESTORS ARE SEEKING THESE PROPERTIES.
99.9% of THE CALLERS DID NOT HAVE ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE.
THE LAST ONE I HAD KIND OF CONVERSATION WITH:
“WE PAY CASH”
OK- I WANT AN ESCROW ONLY I CAN ACCESS/CONTROL
I WANT 180 ESCROW TO FIND ANOTHER SUITABLE PROPERTY-I HAVE HORSES-.
I WANT CASH-—ALL IN ONE PAYMENT—$3 MILLION, AND YOU PAY ALL THE CLOSING COSTS-—$3 MILLION TO ME-—CLEAR.
“THE PROPERTY ISN’T WORTH THAT MUCH”
IT IS TO ME——
LATELY, I JUST YELL “FU” IN HIGH DECIBELS & HANG UP.